The Heart of the Continent: A Record of Travel Across the Plains and in Oregon, with an Examination of the Mormon Principle

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Seite 320 Human ingenuity can fashion no oath comprehensive enough in its form or
terrible enough in its sanction to bind a Mormon juryman to the prejudice of his
coreligionist, or of the vast autocracy (theocracy he calls it) by whose favor he
holds all ...

Seite 530 Mormonism is intended to be a theocracy like the Jewish. Mormonism is a theocracy so far as human agency can make one. The Mormons have shown
what can be made of the old Puritan idea carried out consistently to its ultimate ...

Seite 531 They had a very rampant devil to be sure ; and witches innumerable, who in
partnership did innumerable grievous deviltries and sore witcheries ; but those
were all on the debit side of their theocracy — a supernatural which belonged to
...

Seite 532 Possessing the supernatural as the credential and prop of its authority, the
Mormon theocracy wields more unlimited power than any despotism on the globe
. Here again it is a copy of the Jewish. As the High-priest, after consulting the
Urim ...

Seite 536 ... learn that the God of a theocracy is a jealous God. In the States Mr. Polypeith's
family has always been such a blameless one that the suspicion of suspicion
never crosses their minds. They live with the same guileless freedom that has ...